Google Rich Snippet

[David-McGawn]

So i have been implementing rich snippets for work and all has been good until now, As you can see below the meta description has all of a sudden included the review date.

The review date is the only date on the page. Any ideas what could be causing this?

Thanks

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[PatrickDelehanty]

Hi there

You have a markup on that date at line 519...

Is this what you wanted it to be? You can use the Structured Data Testing Tool using your URL to see what markup Google sees. Just click "Fetch URL", paste your URL, and click "Fetch & Validate". What Google finds will populate.

Hope this helps! Good luck!

[David-McGawn]

Thanks for the reply

Yeah that date is the markup for the review my question is why is it showing 2 times in the organic add when the date is only for the review, it is showing in the meta description also

Thanks

[PatrickDelehanty]

Hi there

My bad, I misread and didn't see the second date. That's a good question, for some reason it looks like the crawlers are considering that the date of the page itself.

I would try changing that line of code to **itemprop="datePublished" content="2013-12-12" **- this would be more in line with what Google/Schema puts forth as best practices.

Try that and see if the date changes on your snippet.

Hope this helps! Good luck!

[David-McGawn]

Thanks I will give that a shot tomorrow and fetch and submit it and let you know my finding

Thanks

[David-McGawn]

Just realised i am using https://data-vocabulary.org/Review and not schema.org so i will have to change it all and wait and see thanks

[David-McGawn]

Still no luck guys, 2 dates are still shown

[Everett]

David,

I can see the frustration. It would appear to a searcher on Google that the page for this class hasn't been updated since 2013 because Google is using the Schema markup you have around the review, which is:

A quick fix that could help until you get this figured out would be to change the published date on the review to a more recent date in 2015.

I do see that you have placed the "datePublished" markup within the Schema.org/review container, but Google seems to be interpreting it not just that way, but also as if it was on it's own to describe the entire page. In other words, it seems to be treated like this: https://schema.org/datePublished .

I see that you have itemtypes for an offer, dates, reviews... but not one for the page itself. Perhaps just below the HTML header of that page you could define the web page's publish date using this itemtype: https://schema.org/WebPage.

It would would begin with:
itemscopeitemtype="http://schema.org/WebPage">

And would contain:
<meta< span="">itemprop="datePublished"content="2015-01-01"> (or whatever the real publish date is)</meta<>

And would cover the entire page down to:

Another option could be to go with JSON-LD instead.